Alice Notley

Reading in Buffalo, New York, April 10, 1987
1. Comments (0:26): MP3
2. Love Song (1:23): MP3
3. In Ancient December (2:16): MP3
4. Get Away (1:26): MP3
5. All My Life (0:15): MP3
6. Songbook (1:29): MP3
7. Homage to Marianne Moore (2:45): MP3
8. Margaret and Dusty (0:44): MP3
9. Sweetheart (3:45): MP3
10. Fate (0:15): MP3
11. I Was Born (0:49): MP3
12. Corpus Sagrada (1:29): MP3
13. In This Paradise (2:11): MP3
14. What To Bring (4:24): MP3
15. I The People (2:12): MP3
16. Poem (2:16): MP3
17. Parts of a Wedding (0:40): MP3
18. This Chair (2:14): MP3
19. Amorchord (0:48): MP3
20. At Night The States (8:55): MP3
21. Poem (2:13): MP3
Complete Reading (43:04): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House,November 6, 2006

Video Recording

Complete Recording (1:04:41)
Discussion (11:51)

Introduction by Jessica Lowenthal (6:49)

Reading from Grave of Light
2. Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice (3:00)
3. The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books (0:55)
4. So Much (0:37)
5. I the People (1:46)
6. More important than having been born is your city (0:22)
7. "A car" "awash with blood" (1:46)
8. Help Me Corpus Sagrada (3:48)
9. Enuma Elish (0:34)
10. Grave of Light (7:02)

Reading from Alma, or the Dead Women
11. Answer if You Can (3:22)
12. Ballad (3:05)
13. Pollen (2:11)

More Readings from Grave of Light
From "Songs and Stories of the Ghouls" (Tracks 13-18)
14. "What she reports against you isn't" (1:09)
15. "The city I founded I will found again" (0:43)
16. "What were you doing when I thought you were dead" (1:30)
17. "If you meet me here I was Lady" (0:30)
18. "I stand here in whose eyes" (1:02)
19. "Woman with antlers, deer-headed antlered woman" (1:07)
20. from In the Pines, 14 (7:40)


Reading in Bolinas, CA, December 2, 1971
1. Introduction by Ted Berrigan (2:19): MP3
2. Conversation (1:21): MP3
3. Creatures (2:59): MP3
4. April (0:33): MP3
5. Echoes Others (1:26): MP3
6. Cold Poem (0:22): MP3
7. Once More (0:09): MP3
8. Poem (1:29): MP3
9. December (0:34): MP3
10. Free (0:09): MP3
11. We Arrived and What We Did (0:52): MP3
12. Sonnet 1 (0:55): MP3
13. Sonnet 2 (0:53): MP3
14. Sonnet 5, take 1 (0:50): MP3
15. Sonnet 5, take 2 (0:39): MP3
16. Sonnet 8 (1:14): MP3
17. Sonnet 10 (0:39): MP3
18. Sonnet 12 (0:44): MP3
19. Sonnet 15 (0:44): MP3
20. Sonnet 16 (0:51): MP3
21 Sonnet 22 (0:38): MP3
22. Sonnet 23 (0:46): MP3
23. Sonnet 24 (1:04): MP3

complete reading (23:31): MP3

(Sonnets from 165 Meeting House Lane, C Press)


from The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980
A Woman Comes Into the Room (1:06): MP3

Also on PennSound:
Alice Notley discusses The Descent of Alette on Cross-Cultural Poetics.
Recorded in Paris, January 7, 2004. (54:42) MP3, RealAudio
Alice Notley reads from from Mysteries of Small Houses on on Cross-Cultural Poetics
Complete Reading (1:00): MP3
"c. '81" from Frequency Audio Journal (2:48): MP3


Alice Notley on PennSound Daily

• November 10, 2009: "PoemTalk 25: Alice Notley's "I The People"
• February 20, 2009: "Alice Notley on PennSound"
• March 21, 2008: "Alice Notley Reading in Bolinas, 1971"

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